Story from Fox News. (H/T Dad and Mary)
Excerpt:
The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says.
“The words in the old form were ‘mother’ and ‘father,’” said Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services. “They are now ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two.’”
A statement on the State Department website noted: “These improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.” The statement didn’t note if it was for child applications only.
[…]Gay rights groups are applauding the decision.
“Changing the term mother and father to the more global term of parent allows many different types of families to be able to go and apply for a passport for their child without feeling like the government doesn’t recognize their family,” said Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of Family Equality Council.
Her organization lobbied the government for several years to remove the words from passport applications.
“Our government needs to recognize that the family structure is changing,” Chrisler said. “The best thing that we can do is support people who are raising kids in loving, stable families.”
[…]Chrisler recounted the day she and her female partner tried to get her twin sons passports.
“Even though my partner was their legal mother, had adopted them after I gave birth to them, she still had to put her name in the father field, and that is both discriminatory and makes us feel like second-class citizens,” she said.
Democrats don’t believe in family or marriage. That’s why they push same-sex marriage and oppose the Defense of Marriage Act. They don’t believe that children should grow up with mothers and fathers. They believe that children are chattel to be shifted around based on the whims of selfish, sex-obsessed adults. They don’t care what the children want or what is best for them – they just need to buy the votes of people who want to be free from moral obligations to children. They think that parents should be ignored and pushed aside (except to work and pay taxes) so that the expert teachers can push sensible secular leftist views onto the children – especially sex education. And they would like this extended to earlier and earlier ages. That is assuming that children are allowed to be born at all – the abortion rate in Democrat strongholds like New York is near 40%. About 40% of all pregnancies in New York end in deliberate abortions.
Why is the family disintegrating in America? Because Democrats are actively undermining them.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
I take umbrage with your use of “secular” here. “Secular”, in any sane sense, is just how we run a country that is not a theocracy. It can encompass values from religions that make sense in society, without making everyone adhere to them. Thus, being Christian in a secular society is not any sort of oxymoron.
What these people have, however, is not an absence of a strict religious adherence, but a religion of their own invention. I’ve certainly met secularists who are open to different ideas, who don’t treat certain things as sacrosanct, etc. These people, however, have the most dogmatic beliefs around. Their Bible is Betty Friedan. They worship the earth and sex. It’s not secular; it’s the imposition of a religion upon people, without room for them to function in their own religion.
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This morning’s paper said that Clinton relented and left “mother” and “father” along with the new “parent 1” and “parent 2.”
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Oh drats. I write all my posts the night before since I cannot write at work.
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Only 1 and 2? How narrow-minded of them. What about parents 3, 4, 5, …?
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The book I’m reading tells us that in Hebrew the word “parent” is always plural, because no one can be a single parent. They say it takes a mother and father to parent a child. One can be a single mother or single father, but never a single parent.
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That is interesting. And wise.
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